The Black Napoleon: Toussaint L'ouverture Liberator of Haiti

Fiction is at every turn ambushed by fact in this remarkable work written by James J. Hannon. The result is a landmark companion to C. L. R. James' 1938 classic, The Black Jacobins. While it entertains with a crackling pace in the action, it is also a corrective force in its view of the past. the substance of this novel is like granite. It is one of those all-too-rare navels that creates its own space in the universe of knowing, feeling, and remembering. Good novels are sources of learning about the world and its events. This is one of them!